UPCE restorers working on the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
Experts from the Faculty of Restoration at the University of Pardubice are working on a new project. They are helping to save the ornamental elements on the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. They are using a new biological method of stone restoration to treat the sensitive surfaces of one of the mo…
International Colloquium on the Emmaus Cycle Preservation
An international project for detailed research of the wall paintings of the so-called Emmaus cycle in Prague was presented at an international colloquium. On 22 and 23 May 2025, an international colloquium was held at Emmaus Abbey to summarize the findings of the restoration and natural history res…
UPCE restorers save rare mosaic
Experts from the Faculty of Restoration at the University of Pardubice participated in the restoration of a valued mosaic from the period of socialist realism in Liberec. The mosaic depicting a female and male student with attributes of technical disciplines towered over the entrance to the forme…
From Sugar to Fame
Sixteen months. For such a long time did the experts from the Faculty of Restoration keep a 7,000 years old well in sugar solution. They aimed to preserve the oldest wooden structure worldwide, found by archaeologists near Ostrov na Chrudimsku in 2018. They succeeded. Experts have just taken out …
Saving Books From Ashes
Some are five hundred years old. They are old and damaged. Yet beautiful. Their new life starts at the Faculty of Restoration. We are talking about books. Ivan Kopáčik, Head of the Studio of Restoration and Conservation of Paper, Bookbinding and Documents takes one such book and describes in deta…
Researcher of the University of Pardubice Receives a Prestigious Austrian Fellowship
What alloys of copper were used by ancient Egyptians? Where did the copper used by ancient metallurgist come from? Jiří Kmošek, a young researcher of the Faculty of Restoration of the University of Pardubice, who specializes in analysing historical artifacts, is trying to answer these questions. …
World’s Oldest Well Preserved in a Solution of Sugar
The world’s oldest well unearthed by archaeologists near Ostrov in the Chrudim area, Pardubice Region when doing construction works for the D35 motorway is far from resembling a source of water now. It has been disassembled into five parts which have been immersed – rather unusually – into sugar …
Our restorers to help preserve a 7000-year-old prehistoric well
A seven thousand years old well – the oldest well found in the Czech Republic and the oldest wooden architectural structure in Europe – is to be preserved by the experts of the University of Pardubice. The unique discovery was made by archaeologists last year at Ostrov in the Pardubice Region whe…
Tracking ancient Egyptian metallurgy with lead isotopes
Czech scientists have made a surprising discovery. A metal pot buried in a tomb in Egypt's Abusir 5000 years ago was made of material that was used at the time in distant Anatolia - modern-day Turkey. They proved that the metals had travelled a few thousand miles before they got to their owner. O…
